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fracturedmind · 05-24-2003, 08:37 PM

I've been told the NTFS writing in Linux is very iffy. A friend said he wrote to NTFS once fine, he wrote to it again and had to reformat the drive -- and he hasn't done it since.

I have a big hard-drive and I plan to split it between Red Hat Linux and Windows XP (for gaming). I want to put my music on the NTFS partition since Windows can't read EXT3. So, is there a way I can mount the NTFS as a 'read only' so theres no possible way I could mess anything up? Or is there a totally clean NTFS-writing-thingy-majig out there now? (sorry I'm half a linux noob)

Thanks in advance, as always

05-24-2003, 08:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
fracturedmind Crazy Location: Dallas, TX	NTFS in Linux I've been told the NTFS writing in Linux is very iffy. A friend said he wrote to NTFS once fine, he wrote to it again and had to reformat the drive -- and he hasn't done it since. I have a big hard-drive and I plan to split it between Red Hat Linux and Windows XP (for gaming). I want to put my music on the NTFS partition since Windows can't read EXT3. So, is there a way I can mount the NTFS as a 'read only' so theres no possible way I could mess anything up? Or is there a totally clean NTFS-writing-thingy-majig out there now? (sorry I'm half a linux noob) Thanks in advance, as always __________________ It won't give up, it wants me dead, god damn this voice inside my head.
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